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Backdoor Built into Android Firmware

Schneier on Security

Triada first came to light in 2016 in articles published by Kaspersky here and here , the first of which said the malware was "one of the most advanced mobile Trojans" the security firm's analysts had ever encountered. That meant the malware could directly tamper with every installed app. This is a supply chain attack.

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Android devices shipped with backdoored firmware as part of the BADBOX network

Security Affairs

Researchers warn that more than 70,000 Android smartphones, CTV boxes, and tablets were shipped with backdoored firmware as part of BADBOX network. Cybersecurity researchers at Human Security discovered a global network of consumer products, dubbed BADBOX, with firmware backdoors installed and sold through a compromised hardware supply chain.

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CosmicStrand: the discovery of a sophisticated UEFI firmware rootkit

SecureList

One of the main draws towards malware nested in such low levels of the operating system is that it is extremely difficult to detect and, in the case of firmware rootkits, will ensure a computer remains in an infected state even if the operating system is reinstalled or the user replaces the machine’s hard drive entirely. Infrastructure.

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MoonBounce: the dark side of UEFI firmware

SecureList

At the end of 2021, we were made aware of a UEFI firmware-level compromise through logs from our Firmware Scanner , which has been integrated into Kaspersky products since the beginning of 2019. This one is made up of implants found in the UEFI firmware within the SPI flash, a non-volatile storage external to the hard drive.

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CosmicStrand UEFI malware found in Gigabyte, ASUS motherboards

Bleeping Computer

Chinese-speaking hackers have been using since at least 2016 malware that lies virtually undetected in the firmware images for some motherboards, one of the most persistent threats commonly known as a UEFI rootkit. [.].

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Zyxel 0day Affects its Firewall Products, Too

Krebs on Security

. “We’ve now completed the investigation of all Zyxel products and found that firewall products running specific firmware versions are also vulnerable,” Zyxel wrote in an email to KrebsOnSecurity. “Hotfixes have been released immediately, and the standard firmware patches will be released in March.”

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BotenaGo botnet targets millions of IoT devices using 33 exploits

Security Affairs

Ax with firmware 1.04b12 and earlier CVE-2016-1555 Netgear WN604 before 3.3.3 CVE-2017-6077 NETGEAR DGN2200 devices with firmware through 10.0.0.50 CVE-2016-6277 NETGEAR R6250 before 1.0.4.6.Beta, build 001 CVE-2020-9377 D-Link DIR-610 CVE-2016-11021 D-Link DCS-930L devices before 2.12 Beta, R6400 before 1.0.1.18.Beta,

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